A lot of doctors' offices are using computers to keep track of things these days.

The doctor's office I work at has 3 partners and 2 nurses, plus a receptionist. They use the computers to store patient records or something, I'm not medically trained so I'm not sure about that end of things.

Anyway, I recently upgraded these machines from LOOSEdows to Linux and you'd think I set the place on fire there was so much screaming. "We can't get to our patients records!" and "WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO TO OUR COMPUTERS??" were all I heard from the nurses and receptionist that day. OK, first of all, I improved them. Second of all, didn't you see the helpful little cheatsheets I put by the keyboard? It shows how to start emacs, has little reminders about ctrl-a, ctrl-d, etc. They should be able to do basic patient record editing using these commands and once they are used to it they can even write macros.

After they calmed down a little and opened up to the idea of upgrading, they started asking me where their patient records actually were. Look, I'm the computer guy, not a filing clerk

I feel for you though, having to deal with such a bunch of moran's.
I have similar issues at my workplace.
I hope you explained to them exactly why Linux is so much better than Windows?
Hopefully once they've spend 10 or 15 minutes playing around with it, they'll realise how much better it is, and stop bugging you.

I expect you'll get a hefty bonus from your boss too, when he/she realises just how much money you have saved them!!!--dmg - HuSi's most dimwitted overprivileged user.

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